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<p>We all have goals and desires, just like those people in Scripture did all those years ago. We all have ideas about what will bring us joy or significance. But oftentimes the path to finding our life’s satisfaction isn’t in the external things we set our sights on.</p>
President Calvin Coolidge turned on the 3,000 electric lights on the first "National Christmas Tree."
The Christmas treeâs origins can be traced back to the 200 ADâs, when the early church father Tertullian wrote: âYou are the light of the world, a tree ever green, if you have renounced the heathen temple.â In the 5th to 8th centuries, Christian missionaries were sent from Ireland, Scotland, and England to evangelize the heathen hordes which had overrun Europe. It was during this time that the courageous St. Boniface (680-755) evangelized the heathen Germanic tribes. Boniface, also called Wynfred, left his home in Britain, near Crediton, Devonshire, and went as a missionar...